Trouble in Paradise
Author | : Alan Wallach |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2024-11-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789004711754 |
ISBN-13 | : 9004711759 |
Rating | : 4/5 (759 Downloads) |
Download or read book Trouble in Paradise written by Alan Wallach and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-11-04 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of highly readable critical essays (1977-2023) by a leader in the field of American social art history. Among the subjects Alan Wallach explores are the art of Thomas Cole, patronage of the Hudson River School, so-called “Luminism,” the rise of the American art museum, the historiography of American art, scholarship and the art market, as well as the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Rockwell Kent, Grant Wood, Philip Evergood, and Norman Rockwell. Throughout, Wallach employs a materialist approach to argue against traditional scholarship that considered American art and art institutions in isolation from their social, historical, and ideological contexts.